The Anchor, Volume 98.20: February 26, 1986
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Hope College Hope College Digital Commons The Anchor: 1986 The Anchor: 1980-1989 2-26-1986 The Anchor, Volume 98.20: February 26, 1986 Hope College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/anchor_1986 Part of the Library and Information Science Commons Recommended Citation Repository citation: Hope College, "The Anchor, Volume 98.20: February 26, 1986" (1986). The Anchor: 1986. Paper 7. https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/anchor_1986/7 Published in: The Anchor, Volume 98, Issue 20, February 26, 1986. Copyright © 1986 Hope College, Holland, Michigan. This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the The Anchor: 1980-1989 at Hope College Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Anchor: 1986 by an authorized administrator of Hope College Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ope college Board Approves 7.14% Tuition Increse for olland, michigan 'Se-'S? School Year byDougHolm president for business and article in Higher Education & finance. The rest comes in part National Affairs that in the last The Hope College Board of from state and federal financial four years annual rates at ALL Trustees has approved a 7.14 per- aid programs, income on the $15 colleges grew between seven and cent increase in general fees for million endowment, and gifts 10 per cent. the 1986-87 school year, bringing from the Annual Fund Cam- In comparison with 1985-86 the total students will pay for tui- paign. Anderson also noted that general fees at the other 12 tion, room and board, and the ac- tuition is not used in funding schools in the Great Lakes Col- tivity fee to $9,696. The hike was building construction; the new leges Association, which includes part of a 6.07 percent increase in library is being funded by the Kalamazoo and Albion, Hope is the College's budget, which will current Campaign for Hope. the least expensive at be $26.2 million next year. Next year's increase is just the $9,050—and only two others are According to Hope College latest in a series of spiraling below the $10,000 mark. Oberlin President Dr. Gordon Van costs plaguing private colleges leads the group with a yearly Wylen, the $650 increase per stu- nationwide. Since the 1978-79 charge of $13,710. dent is necessary in order to school year, general fees have in- "We've been the lowest ever cover increases in the salary creased 114 per cent from $4,535 since I've been here," said Van budget, the financial aid budget, to $9,696. Wylen. health care and insurance costs, The years of greatest increase Both he and Anderson said the as well as the expansion of col- came between 1979 and 1983, College is currently considering lege staffing. when general fees jumped from a Purdential-Bache program "As one really tries to achieve $5,050 to $7,300, and yearly in- that would help reduce tuition quality (in education), there are creases were over 10 per cent. In cost for future students. In use at costs associated with it," Van recent years, however, the rate <4 Duquesne University in Pitt- Wylen said. On the other side of of increase has slowed somewhat sburgh, it "forces savings," C • ; •/•?- "•- t' jy^. y the coin, you try to keep costs to between seven and eight per Anderson said. In short, the pro- r down. It's a never-ending bat- cent. gram takes advantage of the • . V . / . * . / 'M ^ • tle." •v Jr« -i.^- > Salaries have been the school's tax-exempt status and .'"*»'• 4 ' " »'• ' S J L. L. S< V A little over half the school's primary jeason why recent in- allows for parents to pay well in budget goes for faculty, ad- ' 1 • / '••,<x creases have been greater than advance for their children's tui- ministration and staff salaries, the inflation rate, Anderson said. % # vi tion. For example, parents with a ; -v ' . he also noted. These will increase child who could attend Hope in •. -/y -l. .: w next year at a rate of 5.6 percent. 1995 would pay a certain fee that Ai, ,-r» i yfafOik The rest of the budget is for "When we had tremendously would guarantee all four years of * 7' %„ >w"#-• i operating expenses such as elec- high inflation, our staff at the tuition, as Hope would invest that "• •••;"" • iyrJto/&/* r-r-s tricity, heat and supplies. College really lost out to inflation money tax-free. Only room and fa n r On top of this increase was compared to other segments of board and the activity fee would J/ word that the Federal Govern- the population," he said. "What ! remain to be paid. 8/ Ltr^ * OkWrlW/ *^^S ' ' ment is cutting back $143,600 in we've tried to do in the last cou- "We're looking at ways of financial aid for next year, a tab ple of years, when inflation has making it less of a financial 0f:t / Jw that Hope will now have to pick iiifv* '* . .> - been lower, is try and catch up a burden than it is now for up. It will not, however, be pass- little bit. We have to do that students, because we recognize ed on to the students in the form simply to be competitive. We ^ ^r ' • :;^ari»>te. that it is," Anderson said. "I of higher tuition. Van Wylen said. can't attract good faculty and really think this is going to be the "We will just work that much staff without being competitive. Volume 97 Number 20 February 26, 1986 future way for paying for higher harder to raise funds and contain Other private colleges have education." costs to offset this," he said. also experienced increased costs Anderson and Van Wylen ex- Approximately 80 percent of in recent years. Washington- pect that a decision will be made Hope's budget is credited to tui- based education consultant on the program sometime this tion, said William Anderson, vice Cathy Henderson said in a recent spring. Critical Issues Symposium Begins with a Challenge If you'vvmi'voe beehppn seeinCPPin ga orangorantJPe chaiphair fofnr thf hoe SymposiuQirmnrtcinrrmt Comr'rvr^ - r „11 u: 1 i._ /• A ,— \ i i i / T T„; J fellowships and grants for American) and external (United Smith is currently working on and maroon posters around cam- mittee. He believes that the Cen- research study, including a re- States) views on the crisis. a book on U.S. - Cuban relations pus, it's probable that they have tral American issue is one about cent National Endowment for the Attention to the values, and has appeared frequently on made you stop and study the pic- which Hope students need to be Humanities Grant to direct a philosophical orientations, and nationwide television shows such ture that faces out from these informed, stating that, "We need seminar on Central America for role of the church in Central as Nightline, Good Morning colors of Central America. A to be informed citizens in order college teachers. America will be given in Para- America, and Today. child clings to it's mother as a to exercise our rights as xon's address. Constantine Menges, Ph.D., man stands ready with machine citizens." He also states that the Concurrent Focus Sessions on will bfe supporting the Reagan gun in arm before a backdrop of issue affects us here at Hope Col- He is active in many profes- individual and specific topics will Administration's Central the church and disunited coun- lege simply because it is a sional organizations, currently be held throughout the afternoon American policy in the "View- ties of Central America. human issue and "As human be- serving on the editorial boards of of March 6. Subjects of the points" presentation. Hope students: Consider this ings, they (the Central two Central American journals. discussions range from the Menges is currently serving as disturbing picture a challenge to Americans) affect us." The main point upon which Dr. Liberation Theology to the Inter- Special Assistant to the Presi- you, for it is a challenge that will To begin this year's presenta- Woodward will direct his address national Debt Crisis. dent for National Security Af- be addressed by the 6th Annual tion of the Central America is why the Central American The final keynote speech for fairs. He is responsible for Critical Issues Symposium. Crisis, Dr. Ralph Lee Woodward, issue is important to Hope the Symposium will be "Alter- public diplomacy and interna- The topic this year is "Crisis in Ph.D. • will be delivering the students, as members of a small native Viewpoints on U.S. tional political action on all key Central America: Perspectives Wednesday evening address on college community. Foreign Policy in Central foreign policy issues. and Alternatives". The "Historical Perspectives on the "An analysis of the Internal America." Dr. Wayne Smith, challenge that will be presented Contemporary Crisis in Central and External Forces which Ph.D., will be presenting his op- is to inform -the Hope community America-Mexico". Dr. Wood- shape the Social Conscience of position to the Reagan Ad- From 1983 to July 1985, Menges on this issue through the perspec- ward is a professor of History at Central America" will be ministration's involvement in served as Special Assistant to the tives of different speakers and Tulane University and has been a presented by Gustavo Parajon, Central America. Smith is cur- President responsible for Latin the alternatives they will suggest Central American scholar for 24 M.D., as the keynote address on rently an Adjunct Professor of America in the White House.